CompleteSpeech in Higher Education

EPG reveals tongue-to-palate contact in real time.

The Palatometer shows the tongue-to-palate contact in real time, so a clinician and researcher can now measure what is taking place inside a person’s mouth as they speak.  The ability to see what’s happening inside a person’s mouth during speech drastically catalyzes research in speech pathology and audiology.  In addition, clinics are able to release their clients faster with the Palatomer than with traditional speech therapy.  Articulation problems can keep clients in therapy for years, but the Palatometer enables clients to correct articulation within months.  In 95% of cases, neurotypical clients are released in 20 sessions or less and have 85%-100% articulation accuracy.  Visit “Science Behind Success” and find clinical studies, research and more. 

Often times, Medicaid, Medicare or insurance companies limit the number of reimbursable speech therapy sessions.  Perform speech therapy with confidence and allow your clients to graduate earlier, saving you from limited reimbursement claims.  Create happy and loyal families by releasing clients faster and giving them more confidence during speech.  Contact us today to learn more about the Palatometer and how it can be an effective tool in your research and clinic.

Ph.D. behind the Palatometer.

 

Dr. Samuel G. Fletcher pioneered the development of visual feedback tools for speech therapy and audiology.  During his 56 years of teaching and research, he conceptualized a number of instruments, including the Palatometer.  During his teaching career, he guided technical teams in Utah, New Mexico and Alabama to develop and validate these instruments for their experimental and clinical utility in speech and language pathology. The team’s efforts were rewarded as speech clinicians were able to serve children and adults with deafness, palatal clefts, speech articulation, swallowing, neurological and other communication disorders.  These scientific innovations translated into practical applications. The biological complexities of communication normality and disorders could now be exposed and unraveled with assessment, remediation and increased self esteem. The dream to be able to document, differentiate, and change communicative disorders was being realized through this new assistive technology, called the Palatometer.  His research started in 1957 at the University of Utah and continues to this day, even at an age beyond 80 years.  Learn more about Dr. Fletcher and the history of EPG (electropalatography).